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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benjamin Dobell:
As mentioned, just doing a flash shouldn't touch any data stored at /sdcard.

Also you don't need to use Windows to flash, you can run Heimdall on Linux.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wesie:
[Q] Bricked Mobile : Which ServiceCenter in Gemany can help?(Link to Vibrant Thread)

Maybe from the German people, which know an answer will not read this one in the following thread, because the phone is normally for the US market

If someone has a solution for me, pls answer in the following thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=811949
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
Ok, whats in the /data partition? I would also really love to keep my contacts and stuff.

The problem about flashing a new rom is the one-click-lagfix.. im afraid a normal rom won't be able to read the information from the ext partition. Also I dont know which rom is installed right now, if I remember correctly i just downloaded the one-click-lagfix from the market and installed it.

Cheers and thanks so far for all the help :)

Thomas
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FadeFx:
if you flash a new rom oclf will be gone, obvously also your contacts and apps. didnt you sync your contacts to your google account?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
Ah, and another question.. is ist possible with windows, to connect the semi-brigged phone and somehow access the data (photos, contacts) on it to make a backup.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Btw, any word on when heimdell gets a GUI (should be easy to cook one up in QT)?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benjamin Dobell:
Not for a week or two as I'm presently focusing on developing my first android game.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
Can i flash a rom in a way, that the contacts will be kept? Probably by using a oclf-compatible rom? No, i didnt sync my contacts.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaturnagi:
Hi, I have an SGS with factory ROM. I went to the boot menu and cleared user data and did a factory reset. Since then it fails to boot. It gets stuck at the Samsung logo. Can anyone suggest anything. Any help will do.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
I"d like to delete this post, but it seems i cant delete posts.. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
This problem seems quite different from the problem I described.. wouldn't it be better to open a new thread for that?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
i am really wondering why nobody recommended to just go into the recovery and fix whatever you have messed up. oh, btw. you haven't told us how you "semi-bricked" your sgs ... if you do so maybe we can help you ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
What do you mean by "recovery"? As described in my first post, I already tried the 3-button recovery-menu if you mean that.

I started teathering, and forgot to turn it off. The next day, battery was empty, and the phone was bricked.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markhd:
[Q] bricked galaxy s !! properly bricked !

So i convinced the misses to switch to android from crapple after the great experiances i have had with htc handsets..... after just 3 months and 3 days of ownership of her galaxy s, with a fantastic screen and on board memory died, no warning, no reason just put it on charge one evening and in the morning it wouldn't switch on. No boot screen, no recovery, no download mode not even an led for charge. Fortunatly (or not) she had been one of the lucky selected few to be a samsung mobiler and has been given a samsung wave (running bada) to review but after the great first impression of the galaxy not sure it quite lives up to it personallly you can see what you think here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rn5BMKg7iM&feature=related you can also see details of this being semi bricked via a kies update and me having to recover it.

However the galaxy s remains bricked ! Can anybody help ? Handset is not recognised by usb and dunno what to do next, with lack of jtag riff box and not wanting to void warranty can anyone help ? Or do i just rant at samsung and big up htc in future ? Is the a common problem ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ehe12:
it's only 3months,contact the store where you purchased the phone and ask for a replacement.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
now thats a proper way to brick :) return it. Did you install a lagfix just out of curiosity
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pravk:
Your best bet will be to get a replacement under warranty.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
[Q] Is my phone bricked? can I unbrick?

Ok, typically I've managed to screw up somewhere and I'm getting the (PHONE..!..PC) image.

What happened is this, I attempted to follow the guide at ####://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=785201 to enable 3 button recovery and download mode (which have never worked). Downloaded the attached file "GT-I9000_P-SBL_RCVDL_FIX_ODIN.7z"; which contained "Aries_P-SBL.tar.md5".

I used that file in the CRC slot of odin (v1.3), checked "Phone bootloader update", rebooted my phone into download mode using adb.

Once it apeared in odin I pressed start.

Here is my log:

<ID:0/005> Added!!
<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..
<ID:0/005> File analysis..
<ID:0/005> Enter CS for MD5..
<ID:0/005> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<ID:0/005> Please wait..
<ID:0/005> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<ID:0/005> Leave CS..
<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/005> Removed!!
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

It hanged at "SetupConnection for at least 10 minutes and as you can see I removed the cable (actually the battery).

Is that my phone totally bricked and do I need to send it back to samsung? will they even replace it for me?

I should add that my phone is an optus branded phone from australia. If I recall correctly the CRC version was OPSJG1.

Thank you for any help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kb909:
Had the same happen to me. Only way to recover is with a jig at the agent. How can we put pressure on samsung to issue a fix for this. It is an android phone and not supposed to be a locked down fruit
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kb909:
Its like a pc without a bios
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stephengoo:
No, its like a hard disk without master boot record.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
Okay so should I just visit a phone repair store?

is there anything they can do about it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alexander13:
Guys I have the same problem. What can I do? Send it for repair? Can they see that I have rooted it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
I can't believe the irony.

Playing it safe and fixing recovery/download modes only to have it fail and leave me desperately needing recovery mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] [Ramad]:
Take the battery out and leave it for 10 min. then try powering the phone, if you still get the phone..triangle..PC image then take to the store, just say that this is what you see when you power it on.

The can not see that you have rooted it because they can only flash it, and your root is gone by then.

To the other guys....your jokes are not funny!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
Thanks,

Unfortunatley I can't get it to boot after removing the battery for 10 minutes.

Thanks for the info about them not being able to tell its rooted.

Another thing is that I didn't exactly buy it from a store, I got it online via optus when I recontracted from an iphone (like 2 weeks ago).

So I have three options reguarding stores to take it to:

- Samsung Care Center

- Optus outlet

- E&E eectronics

E&E is an asian phone repair store, i've been there before and they are very good. They rescued a phone from being droped in a pool =)

I'd prefer to take it to E&E even if they do charge.

What do you think? which is best?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stephengoo:
Send your phone to any store that has Riff Jtag box because with this box, they know how to to repair your phone quickly and easily.

The process has 2 steps:

1. Use Jtag to recover boot for the phone

2. And then use Odin to flash firmware as usual
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
Okay, I'll ask them to make sure they know what they're doing.

Don't suppose anyone here is from Brisbane and happens to know a place that can do it?

long shot I know =)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
Ok, i got kies and odin now.. when i boot my phone into download-mode, and plug it in, kies says something like "please wait", and after a while "cant connect phone, please reset phone to solve the problem"

Is that normal, or should it be possible to connect to a semi brigged phone with samsung kies?

I also tried the odin multi downloader, but it doesnt seem to be able to retrieve any user data from the phone either.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Odia:
Ive recovered from this PHONE ! PC 3 times without any problems, do this ...

Power on the phone as normal when the PHONE ! PC logo press and hold HOME + POWER when the phone reboots and the same screen id displayed press VOL UP and then VOL DN very quick and it will enter DLM.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
I honestly don't believe you, but of course I tried it anyway.

No dice.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stephengoo:
You can do that because your phone can enter download mode, but the phones we are talking here cannot, they were disabled recovery and download mode before, so this is the main reason that cause the brick issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Odia:
Your wrong, its also possible to enter DLM from PHONE ! PC when its not possible to enter via 3BM.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
I beg to differ
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stephengoo:
Ack, if so why still have people brick their phones??? :mad: Do you know I (as well as many guys here) also had a fully bricked SGS, do you know my phone was absolutely unable to boot though I tried million times just to enter the download mode???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kb909:
When bricked neither windows nor linux can see it with No usb connection no software will work
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Odia:
You do? So please explain SBL1 and SBL2, and where in the boot process is your phone when PHONE ! PC is displayed?

better still you should try what I wrote and you'll be very happy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kb909:
Odia if that works you will be a hero Its worth a try, please report back
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
I already tried, it didn't work.

Your instructions aren't easy to follow either.

What do you mean explain sbl1/2? I'm not saying it is never possible, it just isn't possible in my situation where the 3br has never worked and I have no adb interface.

There is no boot process, the phone..!..pc image is the only thing displayed, if i power off; it just goes black and comes straight back again. It only goes away when I take out the battery.

I checked dmesg output in linux and it shows that there is no usb activity at all from the device.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
I just noticed what I did wrong, The .md5 file was supposed to go in the pda slot in odin. I don't know how I messed that up.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jodue:
sounds like your filesystem got severely damaged because of the unexpected power loss ... if you want to reflash your system you have to use odin, kies won't work with a bricked phone. you can start the device in recovery (volUP+home+power) and then access the filesystem with adb. this way you can backup stuff from your partitions and you could also repair your system... you cabn download adb as part of the android sdk.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
Oh damn, too late.. I already tried to flash with odin, but with no success. I used JM9, and after some troubles Odin sucessfully flashed the new firmware, but I still get locked in the S-loop. I also tried wipe/factory reset, which also worked.. but nontheless im Stuck in the S-loop.

From what I have heared, flashing firmware and wipe/factory reset should take care of a fracked filesystem, so I really don't understand what the problem is in my case. Im probably going to try flashing an older firmware version tomorrow...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madcatmk2:
Did you use the repartition option in odin? Should take care of your problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
Yes, I used it. No, it didn't take care of my problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theskymoves:
[Q] Bricked - Kinda, different symptoms than normal

Ok, my first post here

Despite an awful lot of reading here over the last 5 hours I cant find something that helps, though I hope that a solution is out there and I missed it.

Samsung Galaxy S international version (AFAIK) I'm based in Ireland.

I had the stock 2.1 but wanted 2.2 which hasnt been released here yet so applied the reg hack that is going around to get Kies to recognise the upgrade. That went ok. The upgrade went smoothly and restarted as it was supposed to, but just hangs after the load screen.

I had left it for about 20/30 mins and it was still blank so decided to restart it by removing the battery. The boot never completes no matter how long i leave it.

The problems arise as I cant do the 3 button download menu think, no matter what I try (note that it has never worked). My laptop (win7 64bit running newest Kies) doesnt even recognise the phone any more.

I'm at a loss of what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sndytime:
Welcome to the Club,

its hard to say but if adb not recognize your Phone,then your phone is bricked and only a Service Center can help you!

I have the same Problem!! :eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elfstone2:
Hooray!!

I finally recovered my phone, and the photos are still there.

The problem was, that the S-Loop wasn't infinite after the flash, it was just very long..

So, if you do a flash, the first startup might look like your phone is still in the infinite s-loop, but its not :)

Thx for all the help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theskymoves:
That's not good. This is my only phone...

Are you sure there's nothing else that can be done? I just want to have the phone in a working state at this stage

*pulls hair out!*
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lobaba:
anyone know how to backup stuff from partitions,especially for contacts? I am able to get ADB up and running, able to go recovery mode and connect successfully to ADB(Adb devices shows it connected to ADB in recovery mode), software-bricked my phone when I uninstall and reinstalled OCLF and it went to black screen forever(suspect partitioning of EXT2 kinda failed). Am on DXJF4 firmware, it is rooted, should have busybox installed, superuser installed.

Sorry for hijacking but this seems like the most similar thread I come close to.

Edit: Found this

Contacts = /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db

SMS = /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

Bookmarks = /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db

can get them off the emulator using the adb pull command. E.g.

adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db d:\contacts.db

However, when I go to command prompt, and try to pull it while in recovery mode using adb, it says remote object does not exist. Is there anything I need to do before I can pull it or can I just flash a new rom without losing contacts? Tried pulling the whole folder /data but only .mac.info pulled, what gives??

seems like I need root, I remember rooting it using OCLF, adb shell doesn't change $ to # if I typed su so I guess it's no longer?

-adb shell

ls

managed to view the directories but nothing I can do with them hmmmmmmm

tried rerooting using superoneclick, stuck at waiting for device, is this the end?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
Ok, I dropped the phone off at E&E electronics about an hour ago.

I asked and they said they use JTAG so that's good.

The only thing that worries me is that he said that he's tried it a few times before with a galaxy s; but without any success =/.

Fingers crossed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stephengoo:
Don't worry, with JTAG they will fix it soon. BTW, how much did you pay?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lobaba:
[Q]Recover contacts from a 'bricked' galaxy s

Hi everyone,

Thanks for reading this, I'm facing a problem here, situation as below:

I was previously running one click lag fix, then I realised I was running out of space on the 2GB partition, so I decided to uninstall OCLF so as to reinstall it to reduce the EXT2 partition space. Freed up to 1.2gb of space in the 2GB partition and reinstall OCLF partition to 880MB, phone reboots and tada, stuck in black screen after boot animation for 45 mins, took out battery and it is still the same, it's semibricked since I could still go to recovery mode and download mode but that is not good enough for me since...

1) I want to recover my contacts

2) There are some calendar entries within the local calendar which I need to refer to.

3) My memos!!!

Phone is international i9000, running DXJF4, rooted using OCLF. This is what I did so far

Got adb running on desktop and laptop, successfully connect to phone(Adb devices shows it connected to ADB in recovery mode).

Objective: retrieve data

1) Try to go into adb shell to pull EVERYTHING(as below) but since I didn't have root permissions, it gave me a message that remote object doesn't exist. However, in adb shell with ls command, I can view all the directories...

(Contacts = /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db

SMS = /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

Bookmarks = /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db

adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db d:\contacts.db)

FAIL

New Objective: root the phone in recovery mode

2)tried adb root and got the "adbd cannot run as root in production builds"

went into adb shell and typed su but permission denied.

FAILx2

3)Ok, tried superoneclick which is supposed to be able to root in recovery mode, got stuck at waiting for device....

(reason given by superoneclick programmer was that it's either usb port or usb cable fault, since I tried both desktop and laptop and I don't have a spare usb cable...I can't say for sure)

FAILx3

I am out of ideas and searches....I really need help, I should be able to just load a rom using odin and reflash it(if nothing goes wrong!) but I seriously do not want to lose the contacts and data etc....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theskymoves:
Does anyone even know the name for this type of bricking so I have something to search with?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] [Ramad]:
Please remove the simcard and start the phone, start kies and see if it connects.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
$35 if they fix it and $0 if they dont.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sndytime:
Normally they call it,Black Screen of Death. :cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stephengoo:
$35 is common price for boot repair using JTAG, not too expensive. But the store repaired my phone took me only $15 :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shongsa:
[Q] just bought Galaxy S yeaa!! and just bricked...

Hello guys, I need help here... My galaxy s is bricked. It was a really dumb mistake, I assumed fascinate was the same as galaxy s. I followed this tutorial

forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/35726-clockworkmod-recovery.html#post353417

to apply the lagfix

odin gave fail and my phone in download mode, the progress bar stuck at less than half. I turned it off and the screen show the phone pc icon....

I have tried a few solutions but nothing seemed to work, maybe you guys could help me with it.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a4 moda:
You need to get it into download mode. Usb. Plug it into the comp. Then hold all 3 buttons, when the Vibrant logo appears, LET GO OF all 3 buttons and you will new in download mode.

Download odin 1.3 and flash a new rom on there. I have Bionix 1.9 with update ji6 .

gL
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shongsa:
do you mean galaxy s logo? i tried some button combination but nothing works, the icon just blinks but never get to the download mode.

more details

- i access download mode using android sdk from pc because i dont know the combination is.... can someone tell me?

- my pc does not detect anymore the phone. tried adb devices command with android sdk in command prompt. It does not show any device attached.

Edit : ok ok.... I am in downloading mode right now, can somebody give me link for tutorial to recover to original firmware. I am still searching for one but i am afraid i would mess up things again. I just received this phone today....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shad0vv:
Press vol down + home + power until your phone power up... Your Phone suposed to go in download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theskymoves:
Did that. Didn't work.

I dropped the phone into a repair shop today. They'll come back to me with a quote to get it fixed. If it is more than like €20/30 I'll send it direct to Samsung and demand that they fix it under warantee.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shongsa:
Thanks guys it is working again

Just another question, is this phone brick proof, do i can always go to download mode if i happened to brick the phone again?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WpK36:
here's the thing. they'll never fix it under warranty since you messed around with the software. It's your fault it got bricked, not Samsung's. Next time you want to flash the phone, make sure you can get into recovery and download mode.

Imo: you should be grateful if they fix it with 20-30-50 euro's

ps: you should have read 5 hours before flashing the phone. You would have found this topic
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Btus:
It's 99,99999999% brick proof, sometimes it helps leaving it with the battery pulled for about 1h, but every manipulation with the software is in theory dangerous.

Sent from my freaking awesome Galaxy S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d47:
Ok, I collected my phone from e&e earlier and they couldn't fix it =/ I'll hand it over to samsung under warranty tomorrow.